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Episcopalian Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde
The Great White Defendant
Trump getting lectured by an activist Episcopalian Bishop on Tuesday morning brings to mind the prophetic Tom Wolfe novel, Bonfire of the Vanities. When President Trump got indicted by Alvin Bragg back in 2023, I wrote that Trump had ended up living the book he didn’t read:
Donald Trump as Sherman McCoy Donald Trump has probably never read Tom Wolfe’s classic novel Bonfire of the Vanities, which is too bad, because, in a way, he’s living it. In the novel, a wealthy New Yorker named Sherman McCoy is unjustly prosecuted by a local district attorney for political reasons; the district attorney’s staff members call him Captain Ahab, and McCoy is is “Great White Defendant”. I say Trump probably never read the novel for few reasons. First, Trump didn’t note the obvious parallel in his remarks after his arrest …
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